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College soccer in Minnesota

48 college soccer programs play in Minnesota: 29 women’s and 19 men’s — 3 in D1, 10 in D2 and 35 in D3. Each is listed below with its conference and the size of its 2026-27 roster.

Programs
48
Median roster
29
Players listed
1,393

Rosters: the 48 confirmed squads for this season, read from each school’s own site between Sep 10, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026.

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NCAA Division I

3 programs · 2 women’s · 1 men’s

Players: the 2026-27 roster as the school publishes it, where we could confirm it is this season’s. → a Startline page with the class-year breakdown · ↗ the school’s own site: its roster page, or its team or athletics page where the roster link did not check out.

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NCAA Division II

10 programs · 9 women’s · 1 men’s

D2 women's soccer in Minnesota →Every D2 program in the country →

NCAA Division III

35 programs · 18 women’s · 17 men’s

D3 women's soccer in Minnesota →D3 men's soccer in Minnesota →Every D3 program in the country →

Players from Minnesota

Where Minnesota players go

1,127 players from Minnesota are on a published college soccer roster, and 54% of them play for a school inside Minnesota.

Out of state, the most common destinations are Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota.

For scale: 20,067 students played high-school soccer in Minnesota in 2024-25.

Counted off the hometowns listed on college rosters (read Sep 11, 2026; the 2026-27 squad for most programs, last season’s where a school had not posted a new one). A headcount of who is playing, not a rate — no one publishes how many of a state’s high-school players go on. High-school figure: NFHS participation survey, 2024-25. NFHS survey (PDF).

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Counted, with the date on it

How many college soccer programs are in Minnesota?

48 programs — 29 women’s and 19 men’s, NCAA and NAIA: 3 in D1, 10 in D2 and 35 in D3.

Do soccer players from Minnesota stay in state for college?

54% of the 1,127 players from Minnesota on a published college roster play for a school inside Minnesota; the most common destinations outside it are Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota. Counted off roster hometowns, read Sep 11, 2026.

How big are college soccer rosters in Minnesota?

The median is 29 players, across the 48 rosters we have read and could confirm are 2026-27 squads. The smallest is Bethany Lutheran College’s, at 17; the largest is MN Morris’s, at 49. Roster size is not the number of spots a program recruits each year; how many graduate at each position is what decides that.

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Which of them fit your player?

A list of the programs in Minnesota is the same for every family. Which of them fit your player — level, position, grad year and grades — and which have room at your position is what the free list scores.

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